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The French Laundry Cookbook

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Country
  
America

Subject
  
Cookbook

Pages
  
336

Page count
  
336

4.3/5
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Illustrator
  
Deborah Jones

Language
  
English

Media type
  
Print

Originally published
  
1 November 1999

Genre
  
Cookbook

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Authors
  
Thomas Keller, Michael Ruhlman, Susie Heller

Nominations
  
James Beard Award for Photography, James Beard Award for Chefs and Restaurants

Similar
  
Thomas Keller books, Cookbooks, Cooking books

The french laundry cookbook review


The French Laundry Cookbook is a 1999 cookbook written by American chefs Thomas Keller and Michael Ruhlman and Susie Heller and illustrated by Deborah Jones. The book features recipes from Keller's restaurant The French Laundry. It won the 2000 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Cookbook of the Year award, as well as the IACP's best designed cookbook and best first cookbook awards. The French Laundry Cookbook is in its sixteenth printing and has been printed over 400,000 times.

The French Laundry Cookbook contains 150 recipes divided into six sections, each representing a course of a meal. The cookbook also includes cooking and food preparation techniques.

The Wall Street Journal called the cookbook "notorious for including some of the most laborious recipes in print", commenting that "putting the ingredients together on a plate properly can be an architectural challenge". Restaurants & Institutions called the cookbook "too esoteric for home cooks" but found that it "does inspire, teach and set standards for any chef". Grant Achatz of Alinea has called it "[t]he ultimate reference for cooks [who wish] to be inspired by the pursuit of perfection". The cookbook has also been cited as an inspiration by David Chang of Momofuku and Éric Ripert of Le Bernardin.

The French Laundry Cookbook was bundled with another of Keller's cookbooks, Bouchon, in a book called The Complete Thomas Keller.

References

The French Laundry Cookbook Wikipedia